What your horoscope says for next year

JAKARTA (JP): Astrology, used wisely, can be a good guide to understanding yourself, the people around you and the events in your life. Remember, however, that the final result of these insights is up to you.

Aries (March 21 - April 20)

In 1994, you prospered and expanded by eliminating the old and the useless from your life. This applied to possessions, debts, expenses and even friendships. Though you may not have understood the reasoning for this last year, in 1995 it becomes abundantly clear. You needed to weed out the old in order to make room for the new. Two important, and very positive, long-term transits occur in 1995 and bring a new sense of health, well-being, happiness and prosperity. You can expect significant improvements in almost every major area of your life this year. Most importantly, joy and optimism return to you.

The overall trend of health is towards abundant health and vitality. This is a year when exercise regimes are fun for you and your athletic skills get sharpened.

Marrieds will tend to stay married and singles will tend to stay single. For those of you who have been married once and are planning to get married again, the situation is different. This will be an unusually active social year and happy second marriage is very likely. The new love interest is rich, generous, probably religious, likes to travel, wants to teach you things and hates detail and being on time as much as you do.

There's no question that career and finance are among your most important priorities in 1995. The real news is the progress you are making on the career front. Your increased self-esteem has made you in turn more valuable to your employers and customers.

Taurus (April 21 - May 20)

This year you are less concerned with romance and more concerned with sensual passion. You are less concerned with friends of the heart and more concerned with friends of the mind. The need to weed out the useless and outdated is still as prominent this year as it was last year. But it should go easier for you this year as you have more experience. In terms of your career you have more freedom to experiment this year than you did last year. It is much easier to make changes, to innovate and explore new career paths than it was last year.

This year, you are not overly concerned with health issues; this should be interpreted as a good sign. In the case of health, no news is good news. Few of us ever think about our health unless something is amiss. When things are going right we just take good health for granted, this is how it should be. And this is the message of your 1995 horoscope.

This year you are much more focused on friendships and career than on family issues, and the wonderful thing is that your family doesn't obstruct you in these pursuits.

Love and marriage is emphasized in this year's horoscope for Taurus. Not as much as last year to be sure and not as strongly as other areas, but it is still prominent. There will be unfinished business with old relationships that needs to be taken care of. Yes, you have a new marriage, romance and social life, but you still need to sever ties with old romantic partner. You have been clinging to old connections and this is no longer necessary.

On the career front much of stresses and pressure have been lifted this year. This is a happy financial year in many other ways as well.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20)

On the social front there is much more expansion this year. Last year you were primarily weeding out undesirable friends and lovers. This year you do this to some degree but you are more concerned with expanding your social sphere. Your love and romantic life is especially prominent in 1995.

A little planning and priority-setting will save you from any major health disasters. Speak less and listen more. Learn to turn off your restless mind when it isn't needed. Look more and think less. If you practice these things you will save enormous amounts of energy that can be used to prevent any form of ailment.

The home and domestic life is not a priority this year. The Cosmos is neither helping nor obstructing your domestic plans and projects. You have freedom in this area, though it is unlikely that you will use this freedom.

Money and possessions is not on power this year. Mere money-making takes a back seat to many other things, most notably your career and professional esteem and your love life. You would much rather have professional and public esteem than a big bank account right now. This will change in the future, but for now this is how you feel.

Cancer (June 21 - July 20)

Though 1995 is very much a happy year, the overall trends keep getting better, it is more a work-orientated year. In 1994 money came to you through luck, creativity and speculations. In 1995 it comes through work and service. Productivity is the key word this year.

In 1994 many of you were deluged with creative ideas. In 1995 you need to work out these new ideas, in all their details and ramifications, and put them into practice.

Your love life is still active and exciting in 1995, but this year you lean more towards committed relationships than towards fun and games. Though you are more serious about love this year and you want to go beyond fun and games, you relationships are still unstable. Those of you who are single might be better off not marrying this year and just playing the field. Real love will come next year and it might be wiser to sow your wild oats now while you can.

The trend of good health continues. Most of the major planets are making harmonious aspects to you and Jupiter, the planet of luck and benevolence, will be in your House of Health for an unusually long time this year. Thus your House of Health is prominent in 1995 in a positive way.

Though your home and family are always interesting and important to you, this year they are slightly less important than usual. The most notable change for the better this year is that your family or some family members drop their opposition to your partner or lover.

Leo (July 21 - Aug. 21)

1995 is like a new birth for you. You are born into yourself, into a universe that loves and supports you for who you are. The sense of blockage, frustration, resistance and struggle which you have felt for so many years is finally leaving. You achieve goals and express yourself with ease. Genuine happiness comes into your life in various ways. 1995 is a fun year and no one knows how to have fun better than you. Enjoy.

The Celestial Forces are pouring their Life-Force into you and this is stronger than any medicine. Life-Force, called by various names in different cultures, is the Ultimate Health Tonic. The planets have always been pouring their Life-force into you, but because they were in stressful aspect you had trouble receiving and assimilating it. Now they are filling you with life and power in ways that are comfortable and harmonious to you.

You are less involved with family members this year and more involved with children, an activity you love by your nature.

In the domain of love and social life, it is a lot happier and fulfilling than it has been in the past two years. The sense of idealism and experimentation in relationships continues, as this is a long-term trend, but experiments are more likely to bring happiness than disappointment this year.

Money and career are not priorities this year. Work is important, but not in terms of your career as much as your self-esteem and social standing. This is a year in which you make money by helping others to prosper too.

Virgo (Aug. 22 - Sept. 22)

1995 will be the year in which you expand your emotional capacities and psychological insights. 1995 is a year in which you see the limits of intellectual brilliance, awesome though this is. Getting your emotional life in order is not the most comfortable activity for you, because you are by nature an intellectual. But when you do this the end result will be an enhancement of the intellect and an even greater outburst of creativity. The impact on your overall health and well-being will also be considerable.

There are many changes in your love and social life this year as well, for Saturn in your House of Marriage all year is changing your fundamental attitudes to love and partnerships.

Uranus, your Health Lord, is still very much stimulated by the other planets this year, making your health an important priority. Your vitality is not what you have been accustomed to for the past few years. There are no health disasters here, mind you, just a lessening of your physical energy and probably of your self-esteem.

You are forced to be more selective, not only on the romantic front but on the social front as well. You have to make hard choices, you can't socialize with everyone who wants to be your friend. You have to limit your focus. A few good friends are better than myriads of lukewarm ones. Look for the few good ones.

On the career and finance front, you have got bigger fish to fry. Of course you will work and earn money this year, but it comes rather easily and you are not overly compulsive about it.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22)

This year you seem sated financially. You are where you want to be and you are ready to reap the rewards of financial success, that is being able to expand your mind and intellectual interests. Money buys you the freedom to take courses, study and develop your mind. This year the financial transformation that you've been working on will be completed. On to higher, less materialistic pursuits.

Your health and vitality have been steadily improving year by year. 1995 is better than 1994. Though your health is improved this year, you have to work a physical fitness and maintaining your health.

Again, as has been the case for many years now, your family situation and relationships are unstable, turbulent and difficult to predict.

Though love and romance will always be important to you, Libra, this year they are less so. For singles, uncommitted, fun-type love affairs are more likely than marriage. Whether you are married or single, the status quo is unlikely to change. You have more social freedom this year, but less interest in this area of your life.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 22)

1994 was a year of great personal expansion on almost every level for you. This happy trend continues in 1995, only the emphasis shifts a bit this year. In 1995 you focus on perfecting the substance behind the image. The importance of neighbors, intellectual interests and communication continues in 1995. This is a long term trend. Your home and domestic life are much less depressing this year than they were last year.

Though your health was excellent in 1994, it even gets better this year. Your health is so good that you are just not concerned about it.

Family interests are still prominent and much happier than they were last year. The sense of burden and duty with regard to your family has gone away. You have more living space, you feel less cramped.

Though unquestionably you are attracting the opposite sex, your physical appearance and personal magnetism are awesome, your are more concerned with your personal needs and goals than with those of a partner.

This is also a year to think big about financial goals. You will deny yourself a lot of good if you are too petty and small-minded. Earnings are great and your spending habits are also more expansive. But there is a great financial optimism in you. Money is earned happily and easily.

Sagittarius (Nov. 23 - Dec. 20)

In 1995 you become more like your natural self. You emerge with a new, shined-up, glamorized image. You are "out there" asserting yourself in the spotlight. There is a new confidence in you, which is your old, natural confidence and optimism resurfacing.

This is going to be one of the happiest and most fulfilling years of your life. It is not going to be perfect but it is going to be good.

Overall your health and vitality are excellent. You have unusual physical energy. There are only two threats to your health this year. One threat comes from over-indulgence in physical pleasure, over-eating, over-exercise, etc. The other comes from family relationships which could depress you if you allow them to.

Though you will be disappointed at the disloyalty of certain people, at least you will have discover who is for real and who is not.

Love and marriage is not especially prominent this year. You seem blase about love and commitment, totally unconcerned about them. Home, finance and personal pleasures are more important to you than marriage.

Your financial experimentation is beginning to pay off. Not because your self-esteem and feeling of self-worth are greater. You are in a long-term trend of upward financial expansion. 1995 brings increased travel, education, money and promotions.

Capricorn (Dec. 21 - Jan. 19)

1995 will be a year of spiritualism and intellect. Money, of course, continues to be important, but your focus has definitely shifted. Therefore, 1995 becomes a year of relative seclusion, a year in which you prefer being the "power behind the throne" than actually on the throne, in which you undertake charitable and philanthropic activities and do good deeds for their own sake. This is a year of preparation for a new cycle that will begin in 1996, a new cycle of success and expansion.

Your health is very much improved over 1994. Seldom have you felt this good, so full of life and vitality. You are much more concerned about your body from a cosmetic perspective, from the viewpoint of looking your best, rather than from a health perspective.

Your family seems to give you freedom this year. They are not obstructing or hindering you in your goals and plans. You are becoming much closer with your eldest sibling, entering into a happier and more cooperative relationship. Only be careful not to be overbearing or a burden to them.

Marriage is not high on your list of priorities. Yes you are definitely attracting the opposite sex. The lack of romantic or matrimonial interest is coming from you and not from others. Many of you will change your romantic status quo this year.

Money and career are always important to you, but this year they are less important than usual. Of the two, money making is more important to you now than career status and prestige.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)

In 1995, you will reap some of the rewards of career success and increased status. You fulfill some of your fondest wishes and make friends who are interested in helping you make your dreams come true. Your increased status has catapulted you into "new company" a new social sphere.

The areas dominate your interest in 1995: friendships, spirituality and earning power. Each will be fulfilling in its own way.

Your vitality is much stronger than it has been because you are carrying less burdens. It is not that you are stronger this year than last year, but you feel stronger because you are carrying less weight, both physically and psychologically.

You have freedoms this year to make of your home and family relationships what you will. Your family grants you freedom and latitude in the pursuits of your goals and interests.

You are more interested in friendship than in romance this year. You shine as a friend. The ideals of friendship, which are always fascinating to you, are even more fascinating this year.

Your interest in career status is, however, waning. By the end of the year you are more interested in the fruits of career success -- the money and the social opportunities it brings -- than the success itself. You need to manage existing resources better. Become a more discerning shopper. Cut waste. Learn how to create budgets and live by them.

Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 20)

1995 is a much more serious, work and career orientated year. 1995 is also a year of trial and testing. You will be rewarded as much for your endurance and discipline as for what you know intellectually.

You definitely need to be careful about your physical energy this year. You need to work harder and more efficiently. You must manage your physical energy the way a businessperson manages accounts. Ration and budget your energy. In addition, never let yourself become over-tired. Rest and relax more.

Man or woman, this year your partner takes over much of the burden of the home. He or she will beautify it, decorate it and otherwise make it bigger and better. Your partner's side of the family increases through births and marriages. Be patient when your partner's family meddles into your affairs good naturedly, they mean well.

The status quo in love is favored. Thus marrieds will tend to stay married and singles will tend to stay single. The good news here is that your partner is not obstructing your intense drive towards career success. On the contrary, there is much emotional, though not material, support for your ambitions.

There is no reason that you will be earning more. You will be earning more without really caring about it. This is because you are focusing on your career and professional status. (als)